Sermon
Awake - Kirby Woods Baptist Church
Bellevue Baptist Church
Speaker: Jim Collier
January 21, 2015 · 36 min
Summary
Drawing from Mark 2:1-12, the preacher calls believers to embrace Christ's transformative power and actively bring hurting people into His presence through prayer, evangelism, and community. True revival in Memphis requires the church to expect and participate in God's miraculous work rather than settling for religious routine.
Highlights
If I don't believe that God has put us here to represent Him to the world and represent the world to Him, then we've got nothing else to do but to bring people to Jesus and to bring Jesus to them.
Until we give God the authority and the right and the freedom to transform our hearts, we will not experience a revival in Memphis. You will not experience the power of God in your life until you recognize that He has the power to do that and that you submit to His transformation.
Faith looks like this: you go to the Lord and you say, 'Here it is. Here's what I need, God. Here's my desperation. Here's what I can't do. Here's what I need you to do.' And then you just wait for Him.